Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | But not only that I mean it 's New Year 's Eve , everybody else is bloody getting drunk and enjoying themselves and you 're stuck doing the bloody bar . |
| 32 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 33 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 34 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 35 | Perhaps if we succeed it will be published by SquattervilIe Publishers later this year . |
| 36 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |
| 37 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
| 38 | Well perhaps if you bought it direct yourself , you 'd perhaps get fourpence on it . |
| 39 | They gave me food with stones and yak dung , but it was still not enough and they put it in a urine container . |
| 40 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 41 | ‘ It is not enough and you know it ! ’ |
| 42 | The change of term was not quick enough and he covered it with a grandiose sweep of his hand which nearly knocked over the Doctor 's goblet . |
| 43 | Basically like I say it 's just when I , when I bend it , |
| 44 | There is a marked reluctance to arguing why people should be accorded such rights — " It just is so and things work better if you accept it — racism for example causes instability and prejudice and violence , so it must go " . |
| 45 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 46 | But it 's lovely inside cos he had it all done out for her but she just wo n't move ! |
| 47 | It probably did n't matter much if you did it in front of your friends . |
| 48 | As long as he can write fast and legibly and they write it up as fast as he , they can . |
| 49 | ‘ Only if we let it be . ’ |
| 50 | Only if one turns it round a complete revolution ( 360 degrees ) does the particle look the same . |
| 51 | One speaks with linguistic propriety and sincerity when saying ‘ it will rain this afternoon ’ if and only if one believes it will ; the truth of the matter has nothing to do with it . |
| 52 | This obviously saves time in group sessions , but only if everyone does it . |
| 53 | The fear of death can stunt your life — but only if you let it . |
| 54 | It 's only if you let it take over your life that it 's wrong . ’ |
| 55 | Your reading will be useful only if you remember it and can do something with it . |
| 56 | Try taking the best chop next time — but only if you want it ! |
| 57 | ‘ Only if you want it be , ’ I said wearily . |
| 58 | Only if you want it to . |
| 59 | ‘ Only if I wore it on my head . ’ |
| 60 | Do n't know where I could put you , except in me bedroom , only if I did it might send me young man potty . |